Magnus flour

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Magnus Mehl (born November 21, 1980 in Rottweil ) is a German jazz musician ( saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Mehl took saxophone lessons from the age of nine. At the age of 17 he took part in the international saxophone seminar in Marktoberdorft , where renowned lecturers such as Lee Konitz , James Moody , Roman Schwaller and Jürgen Seefelder taught. In 2001, Mehl began studying saxophone at the Nuremberg Academy of Music with Klaus Graf , Steffen Schorn and Hubert Winter , in order to continue studying with Ferdinand Povel at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam the following year and finally to graduate from the Cologne University of Music (with Heiner Wiberny and Claudius Valk ). A DAAD scholarship at New York Queens College in New York with Antonio Hart rounded off his instrumental training. In 2010 Mehl began a master’s degree with Bernd Konrad at the Stuttgart University of Music , which he completed with distinction.

Mehl first played in the state jazz orchestras of Baden-Württemberg (1999/2000), Bavaria (2001) and the JugendJazzOrchester NRW (2004/2005) and in 2003 belonged to the federal jazz orchestra under Peter Herbolzheimer . Mehl led his own quintet, to which Frederik Köster belonged, and also the Wednesday Night Big Band , which initially consisted of students and graduates from the Cologne Music Academy and members of BuJazzO and performed regularly on Wednesdays in the old waiting room in Cologne; Today members of the local scene play in the big band, which is now based in Stuttgart. In 2007 he founded the Ferenc and Magnus Mehl Quartet with his brother, the drummer Ferenc Mehl , which released three albums. Since 2011 he has also headed the Mehl Consortium , to which Axel Schlosser , Rainer Böhm , Felix Fromm and Ferenc Mehl belong. Together with Klaus Graf, he is responsible for the Klaus Graf / Magnus Mehl project . As lead altist and soloist of the POLDI Big Band he accompanied Sandy Patton (live album).

In 2015, Mehl developed the concept for a dance / jazz cooperation, which was premiered at the 2015 Theaterhaus Jazztagen. On this special project, the Ferenc and Magnus Mehl Quartet works with the dancers of the Stuttgart Ballet, Elisa Badenes, Pablo von Sternenfels and Jesse Fraser. He also worked as a theater musician.

Prizes and awards

In 2006, Mehl and his quintet, which at that time included Tobias Hoffmann , Fedor Ruskuc and Ralf Gessler and trumpeter Brice Moscardini, won first prize at the Jazz International de Gexto Festival and second prize at the international Hoilaart jazz competition in Belgium (2006). Furthermore, together with his brother, he is the recipient of the cultural promotion award in his hometown of Rottweil (2007). In 2008 the Ferenc and Magnus Mehl Quartet won the International Jimmy Woode Award (in addition to the main prize for the best band, 3 further first prizes for solo performances, including the prize for the best saxophonist at the festival). In 2015 Magnus Mehl was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize, because he has mastered his instrument with masterly technique and inventiveness and at the same time knows how to "create interesting sound combinations and to integrate them into his playing" in his compositions.

Discographic notes

  • Magnus Mehl Quintet Jazz Getxo (Gaztelupeko Hotsak 2006)
  • Ferenc and Magnus Mehl Quartet No 1 (2006 with Tobias Hoffmann, Frederik Köster, Fedor Ruskuc)
  • Ferenc & Magnus Mehl Quartet No bathing! (2009, with Jake Saslow, Martin Schulte, Fedor Ruskuc)
  • Mehl Consortium City Views (Jawo 2012)
  • Ferenc and Magnus Mehl Quartet Once Upon and So On (Jawo 2014)
  • Konrad / Mehl Project Two Generations in Jazz (HGBS 2014, with Ferenc Mehl and Fedor Ruskuc)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c First prize on the Bay of Biscay , Jazzzeitung 10/2006.
  2. ↑ Wednesday Night Big Band
  3. ^ A Dance / Jazz Fusion
  4. ↑ Press release on the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize 2015
personal data
SURNAME Flour, Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil